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You've Heard of a Murder of Crows. How About a Crow Funeral?

submitted by Aard Vark

(oritteropo)
6 years 7 months 1 week ago

YouTube description:

They may be dressed in black, but crow funerals aren't the solemn events that we hold for our dead. These birds cause a ruckus around their fallen friend. Are they just scared, or is there something deeper going on?

Kaeli Swift, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington’s Avian Conservation Lab in Seattle, is studying how crows learn about danger from each other and how they respond to seeing one of their own who has died.

---+ Read the entire article on KQED Science:
https://www.kqed.org/science/1923458/youve-heard-of-a-murder-of-crows-how-about-a-crow-funeral/

---+ For more information:
Kaeli Swift’s Corvid Research website
https://corvidresearch.blog/

University of Washington Avian Conservation Laboratory
http://sefs.washington.edu/research.acl/

3 Comments

PlayhousePals

Worth crowing about. I miss the gang that hung around the house I once owned. They were wonderfully engaging.

ant

Owned? You raised them?

There are wild crows in my rural area. They are noisy. They fly a lot. I haven't seen them lately though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeT6GWQ-nXQ for a video of them.

PlayhousePals

Worth crowing about. I miss the gang that hung around the house I once owned. They were wonderfully engaging.

She owned the house, not the crows.
I assume the crows came with the house.

ant

Owned? You raised them?

There are wild crows in my rural area. They are noisy. They fly a lot. I haven't seen them lately though. Noisy crows above me outside my nest. for a video of them.

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